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A boundary value "reservoir problem" and boundary conditions for multi-moment multifluid simulations of sheaths

Plasma Physics 2021-02-03 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

Multifluid simulations of plasma sheaths are increasingly used to model a wide variety of problems in plasma physics ranging from global magnetospheric flows around celestial bodies to plasma-wall interactions in thrusters and fusion devices. For multifluid problems, accurate boundary conditions to model an absorbing wall that resolves a classical sheath remains an open research area. This work justifies the use of vacuum boundary conditions for absorbing walls to show comparable accuracy between a multifluid sheath and lower moments of a continuum-kinetic sheath.

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@article{arxiv.2011.00154,
  title  = {A boundary value "reservoir problem" and boundary conditions for multi-moment multifluid simulations of sheaths},
  author = {Petr Cagas and Ammar Hakim and Bhuvana Srinivasan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.00154},
  year   = {2021}
}